Measuring Acceleration Due to Gravity

Consider a coffee mug hanging on a hook in a pantry. If the mug gets knocked, it oscillates back and forth like a pendulum until the oscillations die out.

A simple pendulum can be described as a point mass and a string. Meanwhile, a physical pendulum is any object whose oscillations are similar to a simple pendulum, but cannot be modeled ...

An object in a gravitational field experiences acceleration due to the gravitational force.

Using a physical pendulum, the value of acceleration due to gravity can be measured.

Consider a uniform rod of length L and mass m suspended from one end. The distance between the pivot point and the rod's center of mass is...